Sindhi
names 34objects 14ISO 639-3 snd
Spoken in Sind (Bombay Presidency); Mewaram's dictionary is not dialect-marked, Sind; Baloch's dictionary is not dialect-marked at these entries.
vernacular 21 · borrowed 13
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| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| ستارو sitāro | 'Star' as a word | — | vernacular |
| تارو tāro | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| سَواتِ sawāti | Arcturus | — | borrowed |
| چوٽيٴ تارو choṭīa tāro | Comets | 'the topknot star', from چوٽو choṭo, a topknot of hair | vernacular |
| ڌۇمِ ڪيتُ dhūmi ketu | Comets | — | borrowed |
| پُڇڙ پُڇِرُ تارو puchhaṛ, puchhiru tāro | Comets | 'the tailed star' Defined as a star with a tail, a star that roams the sky — and glossed, in the dictionary's own Latin letters, comet. Its figurative sense is a false and mischief-making person. | vernacular |
| پُڇِرُ تارو puchiru tāro | Comets | 'the tailed star' | vernacular |
| ثَوابِتَ sawābita | Figures with no secure modern identification | — | vernacular |
| تَرازوُ tarāzū | Orion's Belt | 'the balance, the pair of scales' Baloch defines the balance, then gives it as the name of a nakshatra of stars, and glosses that with ٽيڙوُ ṭīṛū. | vernacular |
| ٽيڙۇ ṭīṛū | Orion's Belt | — | vernacular |
| لڀڌَڪ labhadhak | Sirius | Sanskrit Lubdhaka, 'the hunter' Defined as the brightest star in the sky, and glossed with the dog, Arabic kalb, and — apparently in error — thurayā. | borrowed |
| لَڀْڌَڪُ labhdhaku | Sirius | — | borrowed |
| بابُ السّماء bāb al-samāʾ | The Milky Way | 'the gate of heaven' Defined as a gathering of stars that appears across the sky like a road — the path of the stars, the celestial river, the milk-stream, the kahkashān. | vernacular |
| ڪَهْڪَشانُ kahkashānu | The Milky Way | — | vernacular |
| کِير ڌارا khīr dhārā | The Milky Way | 'the stream of milk' One of five Sindhi names Baloch gives for it, listed across four headwords. | vernacular |
| اُمُ النّجوم umm al-nujūm | The Milky Way | 'the mother of the stars' Glossed with khīr dhārā and kahkashān. | vernacular |
| آڪاس نَديِ ākās nadī | The Milky Way | 'the river of the sky' | borrowed |
| ڪَتِيۇن katiyūn | The Pleiades | — | borrowed |
| ڪَتِي katī | The Pleiades | from Sanskrit Kārttika Baloch gives it four ways over: the eighth month of the Sindhi year, the autumn harvest, the kharif crop, and the nakshatra of a cluster of seven small stars — and then a proverb, that Katī is the Scorpion's betrothed, and that this is why the two are never in the sky together: when Katī sets Scorpio rises, and when Scorpio sets Katī rises. | borrowed |
| پَروِينِ parvīn | The Pleiades | Defined as the gathering of seven stars — Katī, Thurayā, and the Hindi jhumrko — and as the third mansion of the moon. | vernacular |
| نَکَتْرُ nakhataru | The lunar mansions as a system | — | borrowed |
| دُرۇتارو durū tāro | The pole star | — | borrowed |
| جَديِ jadī | The pole star | — | vernacular |
| قُطِبُ quṭubu | The pole star | The same entry runs on into the geographical poles and the arctic and antarctic circles, and into قُطِبنُما quṭub-numā, the mariner's compass. | vernacular |
| اُتر قُطبُ utar quṭub; dro, ḍro | The pole star | Baloch defines the northern pole and then names the star: quṭub tāro, dro, ḍro. | borrowed |
| ڊۇهُ ḍūhu | The pole star | The same word is an adjective meaning motionless, stationary, stable. | vernacular |
| اوتِرِين کَٽَ autirīṅ khaṭ | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | 'the northern cot' Defined as a gathering of stars that turns about the north pole, and equated with Arabic Dubb-e Akbar. | vernacular |
| بَناتُ النعش banāt al-naʿsh | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | 'the daughters of the bier' Defined as the cluster of seven stars turning about the pole star — the cot — and as the three stars at the tail of Dubb-e Akbar. | vernacular |
| سَپْتَ رِشيِ sapta riṣī | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | — | borrowed |
| سُها suhā | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | — | vernacular |
| شُڪْرُ shukru | Venus | — | borrowed |
| زُهْرَهَ zuhrah | Venus | — | vernacular |
| سانجهيِ تارو sānjhī tāro | Venus as evening star | — | vernacular |
| وِهائۇ vihāū | Venus as morning star | — | vernacular |
Sources
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ستارو, p. 311 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. تارو, p. 86 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. سَواتِ, p. xxii link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. چوٽيٴ تارو, p. 208 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ڌۇمِ ڪيتُ, p. 256 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. پُڇڙ پُڇِرُ تارو, p. 575 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. پُڇِرُ تارو, p. 133 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ثَوابِتَ, p. 122 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. تَرازوُ, p. 449 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ٽيڙۇ, p. 117 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. لڀڌَڪ, p. 1676 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. لَڀْڌَڪُ, p. 503 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. بابُ السّماء, p. 244 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ڪَهْڪَشانُ, p. 435 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. کِير ڌارا, p. 244 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. اُمُ النّجوم, p. 188 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. آڪاس نَديِ, p. 18 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ڪَتِيۇن, p. 400 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. ڪَتِي, p. 1398 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. پَروِينِ, p. 589 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. نَکَتْرُ, p. 597 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. دُرۇتارو, p. 241 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. جَديِ, p. 172 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. قُطِبُ, p. 387 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. اُتر قُطبُ, p. 82 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. ڊۇهُ, p. 273 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. اوتِرِين کَٽَ, p. 211 link
- Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāt (Hyderabad: Sindhi Adabi Board), s.v. بَناتُ النعش, p. 299 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. سَپْتَ رِشيِ, p. xxii link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. سُها, p. 347 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. شُڪْرُ, p. 361 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. زُهْرَهَ, p. 301 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. سانجهيِ تارو, p. 307 link
- Parmanand Mewaram, A Sindhi-English Dictionary (Hyderabad, Sind: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, 1910), s.v. وِهائۇ, p. 635 link